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Candide ou l’Optimisme. E-book. Formato EPUB Voltaire - E-Bookarama, 2025 -
"Candide ou l’Optimisme" est un conte philosophique de Voltaire paru à Genève en janvier 1759. Le conte a été réédité vingt fois du vivant de l’auteur, ce qui en fait l'un des plus grands succès littéraires francophones. Candide vit au château du Baron de Thunder-ten-tronckh. Il est amoureux de la fille de ce dernier, Cunégonde, et entretient de bons termes avec le précepteur, Pangloss, philosophe à la langue trop pendue, défenseur d’un optimisme béat.Le Baron, en apprenant les sentiments que Candide nourrit pour sa fille, le chasse de ses terres. Ainsi va commencer une suite interminable de malheurs...Candide parcourt le monde et en découvre les pires aspects en compagnie de personnages qui partagent, avec lui, leur philosophie de vie. "Candide ou l’Optimisme" est une dénonciation sauvage de l'optimisme métaphysique qui révèle un monde d'horreurs et de folie. Ce roman comique est non seulement une œuvre littéraire importante, mais aussi l'un des 10 meilleurs livres interdits de tous les temps.
Candide. E-book. Formato EPUB Voltaire - E-Bookarama, 2025 -
"Candide" is a satirical novel published in 1759 that is the best-known work by Voltaire. This comedic novel is not only an important work of literature but also one of the top-10 banned books of all time. It is a savage denunciation of metaphysical optimism that reveals a world of horrors and folly.Voltaire's "Candide", a controversial work counted among the greatest books of European literature, is both accessible to the average reader and certain to make you laugh. "Candide" is all the more remarkable in that its comedy is derived from some of the most tragic characters and situations imaginable."Candide" was influenced by various atrocities of the mid-18th century, most notably the devastating Lisbon earthquake of 1755, the outbreak of the horrific Seven Years’ War in the German states, and the unjust execution of the English Admiral John Byng. This philosophical tale is often hailed as a paradigmatic text of the Enlightenment, but it is also an ironic attack on the optimistic beliefs of the Enlightenment. Voltaire’s critique is directed at Leibniz’s principle of sufficient reason, which maintains that nothing can be so without there being a reason why it is so. The consequence of this principle is the belief that the actual world must be the best one humanly possible.Candide (the name refers to purity and frankness) is the tale’s main character. He embodies the philosophical idea of optimism that Voltaire intends to oppose.Candide has a series of increasingly bizarre adventures. After being banished from his childhood home, he joins the army, flees the Inquisition, travels to South America, finds the mythical city of El Dorado, and then reunites with his beloved Cunegonde...